My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERMy purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERReading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERGod gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERHow far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERIt is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERNinety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVEREducation, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVEROur creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERThere is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERDo what you can, with what you have and do it now!
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERIf you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERHe who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERWe have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERI wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life – but there was no one to tell me.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVEREducation is understanding relationships.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERThere is no short cut to acheivement.
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